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Towards a second generation of social media metrics : characterizing Twitter communities of attention around science
(Public Library of Science, 2019)'Social media metrics’ are bursting into science studies as emerging new measures of impact related to scholarly activities. However, their meaning and scope as scholarly metrics is still far from being grasped. This ... -
Leveraging media informatics for the surveillance and understanding of disease outbreaks
(Academy of Science of South Africa, 2019)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Syndromic disease surveillance mechanisms can be enhanced by incorporating mass media informatics for disease discourse and aberration detection and social psychology for understanding risk perceptions ... -
A gender perspective on career challenges experienced by African scientists
(Academy of Science of South Africa, 2019)Empirical knowledge of the career challenges that confront African scientists, and women scientists in particular, holds an important key to achieving future success in the science systems of the continent. In this article, ...